to search the Memorials in the Land Office
Abbreviations used in the notes:
CM China Mail
DP Daily Press
FC Friend of China
GG Hong Kong Government Gazette
HKT Hong Kong Telegraph
PRO Public Records Office of Hong Kong
SCMP South China Morning Post
CO129/ Series 129 of the Colonial Office, microfilms at the Public Record Office of Hong Kong.
Number of German residents in Hong Kong 1871-1931
The following figures are from the periodic Hong Kong census returns:-
Year Males Females Total 1871 152 18 170 1881 138 50 188 1891 149 59 208 1896 203 89 292 1901 232 105 337 1906 237 122 359 1911 214 128 342 1921 3 ... 3 1931 95 61 156There was a steady increase in German residents until 1906. The 1911 figures show an increase of six males but a decrease of seventeen females, a decrease for the total population of seventeen.
The report of the Provost Marshall in 1914 of Germans placed under parole provides a profile of the German community in Hong Kong at that time. There were eighty-two merchants and their employees and eighteen wives in this category. Shopkeepers, missionaries, ship's offices, doctors, etc. numbered fifty. There were six wives of missionaries and thirteen wives of others in the non-merchant group. Thirteen missionary sisters were connected with charitable institutions and two other unmarried women. Thus the total was 132 men and sixty women. Children were not